Matapa aria

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Common Redeye
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Subfamily: Hesperiinae Genus: Matapa Species: M. aria
Binomial name
Matapa aria (Moore, 1865)

Matapa aria, commonly known as the Common Redeye, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

[edit] Description

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Male and female chocolate brown. Male. Upperside, pale brown ; forewing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous brown. Palpi ferruginous brown. Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed streak ; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferruginous brown.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Watson, E. Y. (1891) Hesperiidae indicae. Vest and Co. Madras.